Malachi

2: 5-7. The characteristics of a true minister: — a. Fearing God — his state of mind.

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/>. Proclaiming the truth — his message.

c. Avoiding iniquity — his purpose.

d. Walking with God — his habit.
c. Turning men to God — his work.

/’. Teaching the law of God — his duty.

g. Acting as God’s messenger — his commission.

3: 3. The refiner sits watching until his own image is reflected in the metal. Job. 23: 10.

“But, that thy fires may surely burn

All sordid, sensual dross away,
Lord at the furnace watch and yearn
Till from the silver’s heart return

Thine image pure as day.

“O teach us lowly to remain

Without one murmur at thy feet,
Nor at the heaviest cross complain,
Till thou each. docile spirit train

Into thy will complete.”

8. Men try to rob God of their time by desecrating the Sabbath by toiling; but they die off younger.

17. White clouds are drawn up by the sun from swamps

and stagnant pools.

The church is “the pearl’’ (Matt. 13: 45), and individuals are “jewels.”

4; 2. How many men and women who were doomed to a

life of poverty, monotony, and toil which almost amounts to slavery, have been translated by experience of the love of Christ out of darkness into wondrous light. The grave has been transformed into the gate of glory. How many men

and women, themselves apparently lost and dragging others to ruin, have lpeen arrested and converted and transfigured so as to become like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.